Radio stations in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a large area that includes towns, countryside and a lengthy coastline as well as places around York. A radio service addressing the county cannot be described accurately as a programme only for York, although the city can be a significant part of its geography. The county label is for an actual audience or editorial connection with this wider area. Local reporting may need to move from one town to another, or examine how a decision affects communities separated by long distances. Transport, public services, culture and sport can all have different local meanings. A broad place tag cannot decide whether a station is music-led or speech-led, so those distinctions belong in separate format and genre categories and in the service description. York is a city with its own identity and should retain a distinct city tag. Yorkshire as a whole is a wider region still. Keeping the scales separate helps listeners understand which place a broadcaster really names, without turning one current group of programmes into a permanent definition of North Yorkshire radio.